Mise en Place in Ybor CIty, Florida seats about 130 people within the main dining room, bar and private dining area. Credit: Ray Roa / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
It’s officially time to check out Mise en Place’s new, um, place.
The Tampa restaurant, founded 40 years ago on Platt Street, said goodbye to its last address on Halloween and quietly reopened a much-anticipated Ybor City location late last year.
“We just didn’t really announce it, we just let people find out,” Maryann Ferenc, who opened the Tampa staple with Chef Marty Blitz, told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. The goal, she explained, was to keep staff from being overwhelmed.
“We were trying to make sure that we could put forth the best possible Mise that we could,” she said, adding that there were some holiday parties and sold-out New Year’s events.
Now it’s time for the rest of us to dig in.
Mise en Place—now located on the ground floor at 1229 E 8th Ave. on Ybor City’s Casa Gomez block where the trolley turns south towards Channelside—hosts a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday, Jan. 9. Tampa Mayor Jane Castor is expected to be there along with Gasworx developer and Casa Ybor CEO Darryl Shaw.
The space, Ferenc told CL, seats about 130 people within the main dining room, bar and private dining area. Ferenc is also a dog person and said that patio and outdoor seating will eventually come.
For now, Mise en Place is open Tuesday-Saturday, with a cocktail hour from 4 p.m.-6 p.m. Dinner service starts at 5 p.m., with the restaurant closing at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday and at 11 p.m. on Friday-Saturday.
“We’re hoping to get people to learn to dine later in Tampa—if not in Ybor City, then where?,” she said
Thursday-Friday lunch service will be added in February along with Saturday-Sunday brunch.
Blitz, she said, loves his new kitchen, which is actually a third of the size of the one at Mise’s last location on the block across from University of Tampa.
“He actually said, ‘Well, this is more efficient than my other one.’ And we’re like, ‘Wow, OK, this couldn’t be better,” Ferenc noted. “We’re so lucky.”
Blitz is in a place where he’s doing exactly what he wants and even experimenting with the happy hour menu while still serving his and customers’ favorites.
And soon, she added, Mise is “going to do a couple of other things right in our corner of the world, to try and activate the ground the street level even more.”
Last summer, Ferenc told CL that being on the rooftop of Casa Gomez lets her feel the energy in the historic district. While the rooftop is not officially part of the Mise en Place, new footprint she did host a party up there on New Year’s Eve and said it felt amazing to show guests their new home and tell them what they are now a part of.
“We said, ‘We are in the core of Ybor, but the port’s over there, Water Street’s over there, downtown is there, and the growth is happening here, here’s our neighborhood,” Ferenc told CL the day before the ribbon cutting. “To do it that way, to toast with the staff up there, it just was a great perspective to start the new year with.”
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This article appears in Jan. 08 – 14, 2026.
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